This is what you shall do: Love the earth an the sun and the animals, desipise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy , devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air of every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you been told at schooll or chrurch or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in the silent lines of its and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body ... Walt Whitman